Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
The protagonist of my sequence
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson , Author and illustrator
About the video: The protagonist of my sequence
Overview
“It's time to do a casting of characters to choose the perfect lead for my script. ”
In this video lesson Mariana Ruiz Johnson addresses the topic: The protagonist of my sequence, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen. Turn your experiences into illustrated narrative sequences and share them with the world.
Partial transcription of the video
“The protagonist of my sequence It's time to find the character to illustrate our script. In this case, I told them it was a personal anecdote, something that happened to me when I was a girl, but I don't need to illustrate it with me as the main character, and the main character doesn't have to be a girl, a human girl. It can be any character, it could be an apple with legs. As long as it has a certain size relationship with the butterfly, no problem. The only guide we have here is that there is a butterfly that will be buried, so we need a character that can manipulate, that can manipulate...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Vignettes: Stories That Go Beyond the Screen
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Fine Arts, Storyboard, Storytelling

Mariana Ruiz Johnson
A course by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and surrounded by books, Mariana Ruiz Johnson wrote and illustrated her own stories from a young age. Shortly after graduating in painting from the Universidad Nacional de Arte, she decided to focus her images for books and started illustrating and writing exclusively for editorial work.
Currently, she works for publishing houses all over the world and works on her own creative projects, in both her own name and with other authors. She has also won two international competitions, the Premio de Álbum Ilustrado Compostela with her book “Mamá”, and the Silent Book Contest with “Mientras Duermes”.
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